Em Adespoton

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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • The phone isn’t going to end up in China from people passing them hand to hand; they’re going to be collected somewhere and bundled for shipping in an EM-protected covering of some sort. The record of the route they took right up until they go silent will be available for every phone. Looking at an aggregate map of this data should give the police a pretty good idea of what’s going on.

    I suspect the difficulty is that the police need to get a data release from each individual involved and then get Google/Apple and/or the owners to voluntarily share the historical location data with the police… which most people aren’t willing to do out of an abundance of caution.









  • Yeah; just set your article to 2x speed :D

    I kid; all this video is going to vanish one day, and the text will remain.

    And for most things, text is a highly superior format. Sometimes you need a few images or a video clip to supplement it, but I like to ingest information while my ears are otherwise occupied. I keep my phone and computer muted most of the time. I often watch videos with closed captioning enabled on 2x just to scrub through and find the 10 seconds of actual information in the 15 minute video.











  • You know those “do not lick the flagpole” signs?

    They’re not there because the building owners think YOU will lick the flagpole. They’re there because someone else already HAS licked the flagpole.

    MS adds these things because there is legal consequence to them allowing certain groups to use their software. So they explicitly call out that those groups cannot legally use their software.

    That way if an Iranian arms dealing pedophile is caught using their software, Microsoft doesn’t get sanctioned by the US government.